The Detention Center
Gallatin County Detention Center
- Operated byGallatin County Sheriff's Office
- Detention commandJackie Keery Lemon — Jail Commander
- Address605 S. 16th Ave, Bozeman, MT 59715
- Phone406-582-2130
- Population servedPrimarily pretrial detainees; can hold sentenced inmates for up to one year
- Contract partners namedMadison County and Yellowstone National Park are named as contract partners; rates are not published on the county's site
Source: Gallatin County Sheriff's Office — Detention Center · checked 2026-08-24
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✗Beds and daily population — not published
- ✗What it costs taxpayers — not published
- ✗Deaths in custody — not published
- ✗PREA audits — not published
- ✗Independent inspection — not published
- ✗Who else it holds, and for how much — not published
- ✗How to post bond — not published
- ✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtNot found
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- BedsNot found
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Dan Springer
- TitleSheriff
- In office sinceJanuary 2021
- Runs the jailYes — the Gallatin County Detention Center is a division of the Sheriff's Office
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Gallatin County Sheriff's Office — About · checked 2026-08-24
The Judges
Montana District Court judges (elected, serving a multi-county judicial district) and county Justices of the Peace (elected countywide) are the judicial officers who handle bail; neither is a county administrative official. The Justice of the Peace typically sets bail at first appearance.
18th Judicial District Court
- Hon. Peter Ohman
- Hon. Rienne H. McElyea
- Hon. John C. Brown
- Hon. Andrew Breuner
- Standing Master Diana Copeland
Bozeman/Gallatin County Justice Court — Justices of the Peace
- Bryan Adams
- Rick West
- The county's bond schedule
- Share of the jail population held pretrial
- Median time from booking to first appearance
Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-08-24
The County Commissioners
They pay for the jail. The sheriff runs it.
- What they controlThe detention budget, the building itself, and the agreements that let other agencies rent its beds.
- What they don'tDay-to-day operations. The sheriff is separately elected and answers to voters, not to the board.
- The boardBoard of County Commissioners →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The Detention Center page names contract partners (Madison County, Yellowstone National Park) but does not publish rates, so the 'contracts' check is recorded as no.
- No published beds/capacity, budget, PREA, inspection, death-in-custody, bond, or jail-fee information was found on the Sheriff's Office or county's own site.
- Montana has no confirmed statutory adult jail inspection agency; state_inspection recorded as empty per the research brief.
- Gallatin County Commission: Zach Brown (Chair), Jennifer Boyer, Ryan Finn.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Gallatin County and what it costs the people who live here. Nationally, almost 77% of the people who died in local jails in 2019 had not been convicted of anything, and suicide was the leading single cause of those deaths (Bureau of Justice Statistics, Mortality in Local Jails, 2000–2019).
How much is your sheriff — and your judge — costing you?
Your VOTE is POWERFUL.
The sheriff who runs this jail is elected. So are the commissioners who pay for it.
Names verified 2026-08-24 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered